General Chat

Mo, just seen your message, I'll be thinking about both of them on Wednesday, and hoping that all will go well for them. Please give them both my very best wishes. I'm sure that you won't be able to relax on Wednesday, and until they both get the results back.


Love, Sallie.xx

Good evening my friends.
Huia it was so good to read that Phil was more alert for your visit. How wonderful for you that Phil was able to talk to you off family. It seems like they are managing his medication better now. Wouldn't it be nice,if when they know you are going to visit him,that they could cut his medication slightly,to enable you to hold a proper conversation with him. It's not that you would be expecting every visit to be perfect,(as much as you would like it to be),but seeing him how he was must have given you such a thrill.
Do you normally keep your hair short,as it must be so much cooler for you.
Hi Sallie,yes we have been watching the darts. Well Roly has,I have been on here quite a lot,and also reading my book.
I have been reading a lot of Danielle Steel's books lately. I got three for one pound at the charity shop.
Did you get the central heating sorted Sallie. We were supposed to be having a visit by our heating company on Tuesday,re the ignition of our gas fire. But because off the snow they did not make it. So they are due again this tuesday instead ,hopefully.
Now where has our Jean got to. It's very quiet shhhh don't wake her up.
Marie has opened the p.m I sent her,so she must still be online.
Hi Marilyn,Sylvia,Ann and all our friends on this thread.
Speak to you later. Love and best wishes Mo xxx

Mo, my thoughts are with your granddaughter and nephew for next Wednesday (which will be Thursday here). My thoughts with you too. Make sure you are wearing gloves or mittens or you might chew your fingernails up to the elbows!

I have reasonably short hair. Years ago I had it long but it was a nuisance to keep tidy.

I really must get the place tidied up again, after I have finished looking at My Threads. I had it tidy for Christmas but it doesnt stay that way for long.

Huia.

Hi Mo,

Our central heating seems to be okay today, we can't understand what was wrong with it yesterday, unless the very cold weather had something to do with it. We have a temperature gauge in our car that tells us what the
outside temperature is, Alun said that it was giving a -8 c yesterday, so maybe the weather did have something to do with it.

I've been trying to start making cards, but can't seem to get into doing it at the moment, I'll just have to keep trying. Jennie and Michael came over this evening, so they had something to eat with us, they timed it just right.
Mind, they know the time we usually have our dinner, and that I never mind making them something too. I think I've probably told you all before, that Jennie doesn't like cooking very much and always happy to accept a meal here or at Michael's Mums.

I bet Roly enjoys watching the darts---I know my late Uncle loved to watch it when it was on.

Enjoy yourself reading Mo, I wish I could get my concentration back so that I can start reading books again.
Oh dear, don't I sound pathetic, not being able to do the things that I normally enjoy doing.

Take care! Love, Sallie.xxx

Hi Mo, Sallie and all, Had a lazy day today, not done much of anything cant get up a sweat to look to see what wants doing, I always like a siesta in the afternoon if I can, so went up today and slept for 2/12 hours..... I think the severe cold makes people tired, I always said if I would be no use at all if we were stranded somewhere, so just dont go out....lol....
Sallie I am like you , cant get going with the craft thingy, I am going to send you the mags I promised last year,maybe that will give you jolt....and no you are not pathetic,I think the rotten weather does that to folk I find it depressing I am a sunshine lady....I am seriously thinking of getting a S.A.D. light box, i am sure I read on here once all the benefits from having one... perhaps somebody wiil find the thread and put it up....D came in and said it was minus 12c and getting colder,makes you realise how blessed we are to be in warm comfy houses, sometimes I forget to count my blessings.....take care ...

Mo, got it right I was having a few zzzzz.

Love Jean xx

Huia,my gloves are on my hands constantly at the moment,trying to keep my poor hands warm. LOL But thank you for your thoughts love.
Sallie,take your time getting back to doing your favourite things. Just do what you feel like doing,at any given time. Don't push yourself to hard,and most importantly,dont beat yourself up about it.
Jennie and Michael are crafty little devils,turning up at meal time. They were lucky to get through in the snow,weren't they.
I suppose we have been lucky really,our car was registering -4 the other day when Roly went out in it. Not nearly as low as you have had it.
I really pity the poor people in Scotland,who have had it as low as -22.3.
I was watching a man on T.V just now,from Scotland,he was trudging through the snow with a calor gas bottle on a sledge,poor man. We take our gas heating for granted don't we.
Well I will say night night to you all. I will be back tommorrow.
Love to all. Mo xxx

Sallie please do add to the thread, the more the merrier.
Good evening Mo, hope they soon manage to get out to fix the ifnition problem
All these things will come back to you Sallie, take it one step at a time. It is no good making cards if you are not enjoying it because they wont turn out right. Just choose a time when you feel more relaxed and make a simple one that gives you pleasure, choose your favourite colours for example and put on it something you would like to receive.

I am very wary about taking our gas heating for granted these days Mo, If reports are to be believed we could lose heating if gas supplies get low. Apparently people are leaving heating on 24 hours a day. We don't ours goes off about 10pm and comes on at 7 then goes off at half nine and normally doesn't come on until 4 if we are out. This weather we have been putting it back on about midday and running it at 18/19 degrees.

Morning all, what a dreadful night we have had, we have rented property next door , the latest tenant decided to have a party, it started around 8,0 clock last night and was still going strong at 7.30 this morning..... I never slept a wink J dozed on and off, I came down at 3.30 and was so worked up I banged on the wall, bad move, the music was turned up louder and the screaming got higher, I have a feeling if we retaliate the outcome could be bad news... what can we do, all our cars are at the back of the houses so if we report them , we are scared the cars will be damaged.... I dread tonight coming.... Has anybody got some advice how to handle this please, my nerves wont take much more.....

Jean xx

Jean.

Do you know who the owner of the property is ?

If you do ,I would certainly inform them if anymore problems arise.
Dont worry about it if anything occurs with the car just let the police know what happened.
Other than that Jean the environmental officer should be informed .

I know its a horrible thing to happen, but dot let it escalate.

Marilyn xx

Thanks Marilyn, we know the landlord and I believe a neighbour has his phone number, we always have some sort of problem with the property, usually the rentals are short term lettings so we never know who we get. over the years we have had some choice ones....lol....but if past upsets are anything to go by I wont hold my breath, if it was just two of us, we would look to live somewhere else but D has a share in the house and she works from home, she has a home office, so it gets complicated,

love Jean xx

Jean.

I would still ring the Landlord , in case he renews the tenancy to them in the near future.

Just your bad luck that could happen.....

I wonder if anyone else could come up with more Idea's

Marilyn xx

Jean,could you go to the Enviromental Health Authority. My neighbour went through a really bad time,with her next door neighbour. She was told to keep a diary,and to write all the events that were happening down. I believe that eventually.the woman concerned was taken to court,and fined.
The authority put in a machine,that measured the noise level.
Other than that,as Marilyn suggested,get in contact with the landlord.
Even if you have to tape record the noise level yourselves,as proof for him.
As you said Ann,like you we only have the central heating on for a couple of hours in the morning,and then a boost at dinner time. It comes back on again at five till ten thirty. But we do have the gas fire on,in the room we sit in,until such time as the heating comes back on again.
As much as I like to feel the warmth,I cannot sleep in a hot bedroom.
We are in the midst off another snow blizzard at the moment.
Thank the lord we got the shopping yesterday.
I did my good deed for the day,this morning I popped to our corner shop,
for two off our neighbours. Poor Mary over the road,only wanted a loaf off bread. For a couple off days she had been asking her sister to get her bread for her,but the poor woman has got the onset off dementia,and has bought back milk instead,so Mary could supply the whole street with milk,
but she only had two slices of bread left.

I think you need to keep a diary of events Jean. maybe last night was a one off. Is it a young couple? Maybe it was one of the 'guests' who turned the music up. have you spoken to the tenants before this? You know, a friendly hello? Did they seem friendly? Maybe if you could see them and explain that you don't mind the occasional party but you need your sleep so could they keep the noise down after midnight.

Other than that try and tape the noise and if it continues speak to the environmental health officer.

Thanks everyone for the advice, it is awful not being able to sleep all night, there has been cars here most of the day, just block everyone in, we have private parking notices, but they maybe cant read... we have had all nighters before but usually the noise wasnt too bad, and not as many folk.... we have asked a community bobby, and she said if it is a party there is not a lot they can do, unless it becomes a regular event. so we are waiting to see if there is one tonight... then we shall take further action, but its the stress of it all that is the killer.... too old for all this....

Love Jean xx

I tell you what Jean,if the noise continues,if they work,we will all come up to your house,and have a party during the week,and then see how they like having their sleep disturbed.
If not I will bring my Pinky and Perky record,that my kids loved as children
up to you,and we can put it on really loud,leave the arm up,and go out for the day. They would soon get annoyed with that. The same as a noisy neighbour we had did.Mind you,you would need an old Dancet auto record player to do that.
I am only joking love,I would not like you to have to stoop to their level.
I hope you have a peaceful night tonight.

Hi All,

Oh Jean, I hope they won't start again tonight, one night of that is more than enough. We have awful neighbours on the one side of us, although they aren't noisy, but can be quite nasty. They are both in their seventies, and she has fallen out with so many of the people living around here, really nice people that haven't done anything to her, just maybe had to park their cars outside her house once in a while. So Jean you have my sympathy!

I'll speak to you all later. Take care!

Love, Saliie.xx

Hi, Sallie, we never know who comes we have had nice quite ones, so hoping it wont happen again....I need to stop thinking it will happen, my imagination is very vivid, not just about this upset. about almost everything.!!!
my lot kid me about it....I went in the little conservatory today, to do some scrapping, but even with the radiator on high it was just too cold so I may bring it in to the lounge to do....

Mo, what a good idea, you could bring your rottwieller too!!!
I have a small tent you can stay in, its inbetween the two bins so you should be sheltered....lol....love you xx

waves to all our friends on here and Anns thread....~~~~~ X ~~~~~~

keep warm and safe love Jean xx

Scuse me Jean,we need two tents. One for im indoors,and one for me.
Mind you his snores would keep the neighbours awake.Perhaps that would be a better idea.
I could bring my puddy cat,my rotweiller is snowed in at the moment. LOL
Lots of love. Mo xxx

Hi again, just lost one message to you all that I had almost finished, I think this happy is getting past it's sell by date, or I am. The second reason is the most likely one!

Jean, I know what you mean when you say it's too cold in the conservatory to do scrapping. Although I now have a craft room upstairs(or so the family tell me) I like to be downstairs to do it--just feel a bit cut off from everyone up there. I use to use the dining room, and the trouble is, I still do. Maybe when the weather gets better and the evenings get lighter I might adapt to scrapping up in the craft room, a bit better. What's your next scrapping project, Jean? I'm sure you've told me before, but my memory isn't what it use to be. I'll be glad of the magazines, thank you, but there is no rush for them, plenty of time when the snow and ice goes. I hope you
don't get anymore problems with your neighbours. Like you Jean, my imagination runs riot, it's amazing what I imagine, and like your lot, my lot
rag me about it too.

Mo, hope you and Roly are coping alright in this weather. Have you had anymore snow today? We've had snow showers throughout the day, with a very cold easterly wind, so I haven't been out at all. Alun caught the bus up to town to get the few things we needed, he said that there was no market today, I thought there might not be, with having more snow and it being very cold.
Mo, you've done your good deed for the day. Well done! It's nice to have someone to care enough to help, I'm sure they were so pleased and very grateful to you. It's all about helping each other, and if more people did that, I'm certain the world would be a better place to live in. Right, I'll get off my soapbox now.

Marilyn, not sure if you are at home or in Cyprus, but wherever you are hope you and your family are all okay. Enjoy your holiday!
Ann I added to your new thread earlier on. Has T managed to repair your shredder? Hope he has!

Best wishes to all our absent friends, and hope all is well with them and their families.

Love and best wishes. Sallie.xxx